Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 480 570
Rank change year-on-year +52 +90 +96
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 57 62 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.18% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 50 71
10th Percentile £454 £405 £388
25th Percentile £525 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £606 £625
90th Percentile £675 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +8.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London +48 31 £575 -5.15% 23
North of England +18 8 £638 +41.67% 26
South East +29 7 £650 +40.17% 12
South West +49 5 £450 - 6
North West +13 5 £625 +38.89% 12
Yorkshire - 5 £650 - 10
North East - 4 £650 - 5
East of England - 3 - - 3
Midlands +22 2 - - 7
West Midlands +14 2 - - 5
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (96.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (57.89%) Windows
3 29 (50.88%) Security Cleared
4 25 (43.86%) Azure
4 25 (43.86%) Windows Server
5 23 (40.35%) SC Cleared
6 22 (38.60%) Microsoft
7 20 (35.09%) Agile
8 18 (31.58%) Active Directory
9 17 (29.82%) VMware
10 16 (28.07%) PowerShell
10 16 (28.07%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (28.07%) Terraform
11 15 (26.32%) AWS
12 14 (24.56%) VMware Infrastructure
12 14 (24.56%) Migration
13 13 (22.81%) JIRA
13 13 (22.81%) Python
14 12 (21.05%) Linux
14 12 (21.05%) Firewall
14 12 (21.05%) Atlassian
15 11 (19.30%) Confluence
15 11 (19.30%) Mentoring
15 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
16 10 (17.54%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (17.54%) Ansible
16 10 (17.54%) Microsoft Intune
16 10 (17.54%) IaaS
16 10 (17.54%) Incident Management
16 10 (17.54%) DNS

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (19.30%) Confluence
2 4 (7.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Mattermost
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.86%) Azure
2 16 (28.07%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (26.32%) AWS
4 10 (17.54%) IaaS
5 9 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 9 (15.79%) OpenShift
6 8 (14.04%) SaaS
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (7.02%) GCP
7 4 (7.02%) OneDrive
8 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.75%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.75%) OCI
9 1 (1.75%) PaaS
9 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.75%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.75%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) Firewall
2 10 (17.54%) DNS
3 8 (14.04%) DHCP
3 8 (14.04%) VPN
4 7 (12.28%) Network Security
4 7 (12.28%) TCP/IP
5 6 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (8.77%) LAN
7 4 (7.02%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (7.02%) WAN
8 3 (5.26%) 4G
8 3 (5.26%) Wireless
9 1 (1.75%) SNMP
9 1 (1.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) JIRA
2 9 (15.79%) ScriptRunner
3 7 (12.28%) GitLab
4 4 (7.02%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Finance
4 4 (7.02%) Banking
4 4 (7.02%) Investment Banking
4 4 (7.02%) Military
5 2 (3.51%) Law
5 2 (3.51%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) Kafka
2 1 (1.75%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (12.28%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.02%) PKI
3 4 (7.02%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.75%) Clustering
6 1 (1.75%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 33 (57.89%) Windows
2 25 (43.86%) Windows Server
3 12 (21.05%) Linux
4 8 (14.04%) Ubuntu
4 8 (14.04%) Windows 10
5 7 (12.28%) CentOS
5 7 (12.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (96.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (35.09%) Agile
3 14 (24.56%) Migration
4 11 (19.30%) Mentoring
5 10 (17.54%) Incident Management
6 9 (15.79%) Business Continuity
6 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Management
6 9 (15.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 8 (14.04%) Service Delivery
8 7 (12.28%) Application Packaging
8 7 (12.28%) Change Control
8 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
8 7 (12.28%) DevSecOps
8 7 (12.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (12.28%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (10.53%) High Availability
9 6 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.53%) Server Management
10 5 (8.77%) ITSM
10 5 (8.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) PowerShell
2 13 (22.81%) Python
3 9 (15.79%) Groovy
4 4 (7.02%) SQL
5 1 (1.75%) Bash
5 1 (1.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (50.88%) Security Cleared
2 23 (40.35%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) CCNA
4 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.26%) CCNP
6 2 (3.51%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 14 (24.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (14.04%) vSphere
4 7 (12.28%) Hyper-V
5 5 (8.77%) Docker
5 5 (8.77%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.26%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.75%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (28.07%) Terraform
2 10 (17.54%) Ansible
2 10 (17.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
4 8 (14.04%) Nessus
4 8 (14.04%) vCenter Server
5 4 (7.02%) Puppet
5 4 (7.02%) SCCM
6 3 (5.26%) FortiGate
6 3 (5.26%) VxRail
7 2 (3.51%) Avamar
7 2 (3.51%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.75%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.75%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.75%) vRealize
8 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (38.60%) Microsoft
2 17 (29.82%) VMware
3 12 (21.05%) Atlassian
4 7 (12.28%) Red Hat
5 6 (10.53%) Cisco
6 5 (8.77%) Google
7 4 (7.02%) Dell
8 2 (3.51%) Citrix
8 2 (3.51%) NetApp
8 2 (3.51%) Oracle
8 2 (3.51%) QAD
8 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.75%) Apple
9 1 (1.75%) Aruba
9 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.75%) HP
9 1 (1.75%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.75%) New Relic
9 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds
83 Senior Infrastructure Engineer jobs Nationwide